Book
I've been meaning to tell you : a letter to my daughter
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771018077
- ISBN: 077101807X
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
120 pages ; 19 cm - Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:september.18 |
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| Subject: | Chariandy, David -- 1969- Authors, Canadian (English) -- 21st century -- Biography Race -- Social aspects Fathers and daughters |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Sechelt Public Library | B CHARIANDY (Text) | 33260100013136 | Biographies | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future."--
